Lawmakers sitting on the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee asked Kratsios a litany of questions surrounding what his leadership would look like as OSTP director, focusing on how he would advance quantum information sciences, artificial intelligence and biotechnologies.
“I am committed to American leadership in emerging technologies, and to ensuring that all Americans benefit from scientific and technological advances,” Kratsios said in his opening statement.
He later commented that four pillars characterize his ideal emerging tech national strategy: research and development, regulations, international collaboration and workforce –– all to maintain America’s competitive edge in AI development.
“Within the federal government, there's lots of levers that you can use to drive those efforts. It can be through grants and fellowships to researchers, and it can also be through lots of other programs to allow for training and reskilling,” Kratsios said.
When it comes to the Trump administration’s pending national AI strategy, Kratsios also said he wants to tailor AI use cases to agency needs.
“To me, when you think about applying an AI strategy across the agencies, is to think very carefully and critically about what the individual missions of the various agencies are, and align the policy actions associated with the strategy,” he said. This includes supporting collaboration between the public, private and academic sectors as a means to further commercial applications of emerging tech in both AI and quantum.
“I think both in the world of AI and in quantum we've seen examples where AI centers, both from [the National Science Foundation] and [Depa ..
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